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A couple of days ago images of Corey Patrick, an Alabama teenager, circulated the internet after it was posted to social media. The images were posted by bus driver DeJuanna Beasley who shared them on her Facebook page, as an inspiration. CBS 42 picked...
by Walter Einenkel
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Humans of New York —which I highly recommend you follow if you're on Facebook —is currently traveling through Iran, where photographer Brandon Stanton is continuing his tradition of posting a ...
by Michael Langenmayr
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It was two AM in the Dearborn subburb of Detroit, Michigan when it happened. An auto-accident which meant that those involved would need to find new rides home, deal with police, file insurance ...
by Chris Reeves
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I found this article on The National Memo about a speech given by Wendy Davis.
Apparently, she dared to give her definition of what it means to be "pro-life":
“I am pro-life,” she told a ...
by varii
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Hi, Everyone:
I have lurked on this site since 2004, but I deliberately did not create an account because I already published a (now defunct) political blog (Kentucky Fried Politics) and a blog, ...
by SouthernLeveller
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I am a little late posting this but I wanted to be careful and thorough. The trite answer of course is that I'm not batshit crazy but I decided to make a list of ten reasons that I felt were the ...
by celtic pride
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Pulitzer prize winner, essayist and poet Charles Simic pulls no punches in his latest for the New York Review of Books' Blog, castigating the craven indifference of the Republican Party to the ...
by Dartagnan
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By now, various news outlets are talking about the end of the shutdown and how the federal government will be funded, at least for a few months. On the one side, thank goodness. Maybe now the ...
by teddywolf
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Senator Bernie Sanders has encapsulated in a single, biting paragraph why the current GOP-led government shutdown is occurring. It's a paragraph he uttered on MSNBC and then Tweeted out to the world.
by David Harris Gershon
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After several failed attempts, the first satellite with solar cells aboard went into orbit on St. Patrick’s Day, 1958. The Navy, having no faith in the solar unit, placed a battery onboard as well.
by FishOutofWater
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